Exploratory Stage Lighting Design using Visual Objectives
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2019
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
Lighting is a critical element of theater. A lighting designer is responsible for drawing the audience's attention to a specific part of the stage, setting time of day, creating a mood, and conveying emotions. Designers often begin the lighting design process by collecting reference visual imagery that captures different aspects of their artistic intent. Then, they experiment with various lighting options to determine which ideas work best on stage. However, modern stages contain tens to hundreds of lights, and setting each light source's parameters individually to realize an idea is both tedious and requires expert skill. In this paper, we describe an exploratory lighting design tool based on feedback from professional designers. The system extracts abstract visual objectives from reference imagery and applies them to target regions of the stage. Our system can rapidly generate plausible design candidates that embody the visual objectives through a Gibbs sampling method, and present them as a design gallery for rapid exploration and iterative refinement. We demonstrate that the resulting system allows lighting designers of all skill levels to quickly create and communicate complex designs, even for scenes containing many color-changing lights.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.13648,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Exploratory Stage Lighting Design using Visual Objectives}},
author = {Shimizu, Evan and Paris, Sylvain and Fisher, Matthew and Yumer, Ersin and Fatahalian, Kayvon},
year = {2019},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.13648}
}